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Quick Thoughts on Top 25

After watching the games last weekend, I knew I needed to check out the AP Top 25 after the weekend to confirm what we all already knew: the SEC is king.

There are 6 SEC teams in the Top 25, but more impressive than that is the fact that there are FIVE in the Top 10, FOUR in the Top 7 and that’s with nonsense like Notre Dame at #5 in front of Auburn and Alabama who would smoke them.

This is all with teams like Florida, LSU, South Carolina and last year’s runner-up, Missouri, all outside the Top 25. Would you even definitively take Notre Dame on the road against any of those four teams?

The SEC is just a step above everyone else, it’s not a knock on anyone else, it’s just a great example of the way competition pushes people. I believe part of the reason that the SEC is great is the same reason the American League East has been good for a decade, the Rays, Blue Jays and Orioles were chasing the big spending Yankees and Red Sox, and since they couldn’t outspend them, they had to innovate or be doomed to failure. .

We’ve seen both the Orioles and Rays have success in their own ways, there’s even a great book on the Rays that I read this spring called The Extra 2%: How Wall Street Strategies Took a Major League Baseball Team from Worst to First. I highly recommend that to our OTC readers who enjoy baseball.

In the SEC, there’s no complacency if you want to be successful, you’re always chasing the leaders of college football.